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Be sceptical of the capitalists
Resale price maintenance is a remarkable device for ensuring that the manufacturers, wholesalers and retailers of over-the counter drugs are kept in the style to which they are accustomed. The consumer can go to Asda and buy Anadin, a branded aspirin product protected by RPM, for about £1.80.
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Level-headed Milburn won't forget his friends
What does a minister do when he opens the Sunday newspapers and unexpectedly finds himself tipped for greatness: promotion to the Cabinet as chief secretary to the Treasury, the legendary 'Abominable No-Man', no less? It happened to Alan Milburn two weekends ago.
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Your country needs you
Why can't the UK solve its nursing shortage? James Buchan examines the pattern of problems and solutions
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Listless feeling
The NHS has been told to pilot booking systems to replace waiting lists. Ruth Kipping visited New Zealand, where the change is being attempted nationwide
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The price is right
The quest to cut the NHS drugs bill has met with spectacular success in the elderly care department of one acute hospital. David Griffith and Mark Robinson explain how
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Union fury at trust's 'cynical' outsourcing
Unions at University College London Hospitals trust have protested at its 'contemptible and cynical' outsourcing of information technology systems to market-leading health computing company HBOC. The £2m contract is part of UCLH's preparations for building a new hospital under a £160m private finance initiative deal.
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Siemens dumps system
Siemens Healthcare Services has dumped the OpenPAS patient administration system inherited from its takeover of ICL in 1996.
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BMA raises data security worry
Doctors' negotiators are preparing to demand extra controls on the new NHS-wide number-tracing service.
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In brief: Scotland's NHS
Scotland's NHS is to spend £6m on the next phase of a plan to connect the country's 370 hospitals and health boards to its 1,075 GP surgeries. The first phase provided £7m to equip GP practices with Windows NT machines and ISDN connections to a private BT network. The second ...
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In brief: Pharm-line
Pharm-line, the medicines bibliographic database developed by Guy's and St Thomas' trust, is now available in a searchable form over the NHSnet, at IP address 194.19.117.4.
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In brief: SMS
SMS wishes to make clear that, of the two redundancies reported in last month's IT Input, only one was in the UK. The other was in Ireland. The company emphasises that it is not reducing its NHS marketing activities.